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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

About the SAP Internship Experience Program

The SAP Internship Experience Program is SAP’s global, strategic, paid internship program that provides university students with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.

Three reasons to intern at SAP

1. Culture of collaboration : Meet with mentors, make new friends across the globe, and create a thriving personal network.

2. Project-driven experience : gain cross-functional skills from our virtual and in-person learning sessions, diverse subject matter experts, and project deliverables.

3. Gain visibility : with the SAP Internship Experience Program in your title, you’ll have a global network of SAP leaders, entrepreneurs, and career development opportunities at your fingertips.

What you’ll do:

Position title: SAP iXp Intern - Partner Ecosystem Success Advocacy & Amplification

Location: Hybrid - **** Reston

Expected start date: August 2024

Duration: 6- 12 months

Working hours: part-time - 20hrs./week

The Partner Ecosystem Success Advocacy & Amplification team is seeking a communications intern to support a variety of communication channels. This includes assisting with the planning of global to-partner events (both in-person and virtual), amplification of partner news on the SAP Partner Portal, as well as administrative tasks related to communications. The goal is to support increased visibility and reach of SAP’s partner ecosystem, including partner success stories and awareness of SAP’s strategic offerings and partnership programs i.e., AI, RISE with SAP, GROW with SAP, the SAP PartnerEdge program as well as to support increased awareness of SAP and partner news with internal stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role with team members located around the globe.

This is a hands-on position for an experienced writer(ideally an enrolled student in a BA or MA program for marketing, public relations, corporate communications, or journalism). Successful candidates must have solid communication skills, strong attention to detail, creative ideas, marketing acumen, and excellent copywriting and editing skills. The position requires the ability to seek out information and problem-solve.

Event Support

• Align with the Broadcast Technology team on the event date
• Assist with registration site build-out
• Analyze registration data
• Develop event polling questions
• Create speaker invitations/meeting requests
• Assist with slide preparation
• Develop event survey and analyze feedback

Partner News Support

• Create images for weekly editions of partner newsletters
• Align with the SAP Partner Portal team on weekly news updates and hero banners, including uploading content directly to the site
• Create and maintain news items/blogs on PES SharePoint
• Create weekly data sheet of articles for editorial calls
• Manage list imports as needed
• Create news items from the weekly Partner newsletter on the SAP Partner Portal

Other projects to include:

• External research to see how competitors engage with their partners
• Explore potential communications tools that are available (e.g. using MS Teams or Communications Hub)
• Consider ways to improve link tracking in emails and newsletters to track impact, including the development of an analytics dashboard
• Assist with the review of assets in the Digital Library to ensure correct branding and legal guidelines are met
• Assist with the GLOW project (page template redesign) on the SAP Partner Portal by developing and maintaining an inventory of assets, enablement packages, and pages in the Partnership section that need to be updated or removed

What you bring:

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative, perseveres, and stays curious. You like to work on meaningful innovative projects and are energized by lifelong learning.

The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in writing and editing for business. Candidates must have attention to detail and the ability to seek information and solve problems. They must excel at working in collaborative teams and also independently. Excellent communication skills, including empathy and relationship-building skills, are a must.

The candidate must have:

• Good writing and editing skills in English; some experience newsletter copy is a plus
• Detail-oriented, works well independently and cross-functionally
• Ability to understand requirements, seek out answers, drill into details, and resolve issues
• Good communication skills (written, verbal, and visual)
• Good listening skills, ability to pull out and summarize information
• Must be a team player and a demonstrated high-performer
• Must be willing to take initiative
• Good problem solver with a high degree of self-initiative
• Enrolled BA or MA student, ideally in public relations, journalism, communication, or related fields

Meet your team:

We’re a relatively small global team that activates our 25,000+ partners through a centralized and integrated portfolio of internal and to-partner marketing and communications vehicles. This means we produce and support multiple virtual, and in-person events every year, develop weekly internal and to-partner newsletters, produce partner-specific podcasts, provide executive communications support, and drive awareness of strategic initiatives to our partners. Team members are primarily based in the US, with a few based in Germany.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency : SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the hourly base salary rate range applicable for the posted role. The targeted range for this position is 15-62 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidates will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. SAP offers limited benefits for employees hired into hourly or like roles subject to appliable plan/policy terms. A summary of benefits and eligibility requirements can be found by clicking this link: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 398571 | Work Area: Corporate Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Part Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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